[sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

Cyrille lafricain79 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 05:26:22 EDT 2020


Ok still white screen, we need to click on the back arrow if we want to
open it.... Strange.
But after it works perfectly. Send us the new strings to be translated.

Le 21/03/2020 à 01:32, Troy A. Griffitts a écrit :
>
> Thank you to each one who responded with a font suggestion.  I have
> bundled 3 suggestions.
>
> There are two new options under Settings which should allow you to
> selects a font for both the reading text and also the application text.
>
> I first list all the bundled fonts, then 3 generic font families, and
> finally I list all the fonts the OS tells me are available.  I haven't
> much luck setting any of these last group on my phone, but they are
> supposed to be available, so I left them in the list hoping it's just
> a quirk with my phone.
>
> Thank you again for the suggestions.
>
> https://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop-1.3.902.apk
> bishop-1.3.902.apk size: 9270471 md5: 42acc83519931c3beb1c2bdd4dfb85a6
>
> On 3/19/20 9:59 PM, Michael H wrote:
>> I like PT Serif and PT Sans because they have a wide coverage in
>> Latin, and Cyrillic, including many minority languages. These fonts
>> also have complimentary narrow and caption faces that are handy for
>> proper typesetting, and a pretty well done kerning table, which
>> really helps for extended reading and pushing the font as small as
>> possible. 
>>
>> The Font with the best unicode coverage in Latin that I like the best
>> is EBGaramond. (mated with Ysabeau for Sans.) But this is a tall
>> font, and for screens that's not the most accepted way to view.
>> (Phone screens today can (almost always) handle it, but the low res
>> has created an expectation of short and fat letters, not tall letters.) 
>>
>> Another very good unicode coverage font for latin text is Garava
>> (http://www.softerviews.org/Fonts.html ) It's shaped better for
>> screens. I've wanted to use the included illuminated capitals, but I
>> don't get as much time for development as I'd like. It's a good
>> choice to include as an alternative, but I wouldn't recommend it for
>> an ONLY choice. 
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:13 PM Michael Johnson <Michael at ebible.org
>> <mailto:Michael at ebible.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 3/19/20 4:41 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>     > Does anyone have a special place in their heart for a favorite
>>     font they
>>     > would recommend?  It should be freely usable, have a good
>>     coverage of
>>     > Unicode and preferably already converted to a web font.
>>
>>     I have been using DejaVu Serif a lot. It is plain, very readable,
>>     and has good Unicode coverage for several writing systems. It is
>>     also free.
>>
>>     https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.ttf
>>
>>     https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff
>>
>>     https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff2
>>
>>
>>
>>
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